Originally Posted by
Concours77
With great respect, commercial jet aircraft are indeed tested, laboriously and especially in this region.
Approach to Stall cannot, must not be left untested, nor can an aircraft be certified to carry passengers without demonstrating standard recovery responses.
Pretty sure that the "untested" region he's talking about is the ~40 deg AOA deep stall that the plane was in, not "approach to stall"
Futility was in evidence in their descent, with ten thousand hours, collectively, of Time in Type?
I would not expect them to be any more capable of recovering from the situation with that ten thousand hours of experience, than their first hour in the plane. After all, what would have happened in the intervening 9,999 hours to better prepare them? 9,999 standard takeoff and approach profiles? A few million stick back inputs where the airplane reliably went up as a consequence, each and every time? A couple of dozen recurrents in the sim where they applied power and held the nose in place in a "minimum altitude loss" type stall recovery? Yeah right, those hours made them worse, not better, prepared than a freshly minted private pilot.
It's not time in type that matters, but time in stall.